What Good Feeling?

Barack Hussein Obama's ascendancy was supposed to be accompanied by an era of good feelings in international relations with the world warming to the new US President as the anti-George Bush, but in the event the opposite has happened. In what was supposed to be a slam dunk climate summit with Obama arriving to receive more garlands and be crowned "Green Leader" of the world after his Nobel triumph, there has been nothing but finger-pointing and acrimony. So, our new tone leader who was going to lead the world in a giant kumbaya is slapped down once again as he has been on every significant issue since he entered office, from bilateral relations with Russia, to Iran and North Korea, even down to Hugo Chavez who handed Obama a book but continues his delusion that even Obama's US is about to invade. From economic to environmental concerns, to matters of security, the world with the exception of squeezed and beleaguered little Israel, has basically shrugged of the new US leader.